Q: I have an old flowering quince bush that has really red flowers. However, the flowers are all pretty much on the top of the plant with lots of brown stems. It gets plenty of sunlight, so I am not ...

One of my readers asked me recently when a person should dig up her sweet potato vines and harvest her sweet tubers. Despite its name sweet potato is not a true potato. Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) ...

Other Name(s): yam (but this term more correctly refers to the roots of the tropical species Dioscorea and is distinctly higher in starch and less sweet.) There are two basic types of sweet potato.

Those highly versatile tubers, sweet potatoes, are among the most nutritious vegetables around and should be a part of a healthy diet all year long--providing, of course, that you go easy on the ...